On Jul 20, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Andy Seaborne wrote:
> David,
>
> Surely the responsibility for the datatype values resides with the datatype?
+1
Pat
>
> The rules for handling xsd decimals are entirely derived from XSD which already has rules for this situation.
>
> An RDF literal is a lexical form and a datatype; value translation is a matter for the datatype definition.
>
> If the lexical form is "0.049508196721311475409836" then the literal is "0.049508196721311475409836"^^xsd:literal.
>
> xsd:double and xsd:float are completely defined by XSD.
>
> xsd:decimal, being infinite, has a minimal requirement of expressibility with 16 digits in XSD 1.1, which was 18 in XSD 1.0 [1,2]
>
> Andy
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#decimal
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#partial-implementation
>
> On 20/07/12 16:19, David Booth wrote:
>> It is currently difficult to compare the results of two different SPARQL
>> servers when xsd:decimal, xsd:float or xsd:double are used, because
>> there does not seem to be any standard way to control the number of
>> decimal places that are serialized. For example, if the decimal
>> 0.049508196721311475409836 is computed, one server may serialize this as
>>
>> "0.0495081967"^^xsd:decimal
>>
>> and another may serialize it as
>>
>> "0.050"^^xsd:decimal
>>
>> One might (erroneously) attempt to round both of the serialized values
>> to one decimal place in order to compare them, but if they have already
>> been rounded once before serialization (as above) then this won't work,
>> because 0.050 rounds to 0.1, while 0.0495081967 rounds to 0.0.
>>
>> I think the SPARQL standard should provide some "SHOULD" guidance, such
>> as specifying that a SPARLQ server SHOULD (by default) serialize a
>> specified number of decimal places (perhaps all available), and MAY
>> provide a standard means of controlling the number of decimal places
>> that are serialized.
>>
>> If it is too late in the WG process to consider this for SPARQL 1.1 (and
>> I assume it is) then please add this to the wish list for the next
>> version.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
>
>
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